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J.R. LAFONTAINE does not discount the possibility that her homosexuality might be hereditary - after all she bears a strong resemblance to her homosexual mother in features, mannerisms and lifestyle. In this hour, part-time New York City radio personality JR LaFontaine sits down with Angela McKenzie to share her life journey as part of the homosexual population. From self awareness to coming out to family and friends, to the joys and sorrows she experiences on a day-to-day basis being gay in a...
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Rock 'n Roots Salute to Black History Makers Blues and Jazz / Delmark Records One of the essential themes of black history is the central role music, particularly jazz and blues, has played in the life and times of black communities across the country. Delmark Records is a Chicago-based label at the heart of the music. From pioneers like Speckled Red and Sleepy John Estes, to blues legends T-Bone Walker, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, and out-there trailblazer Sun Ra, Delmark has recorded,...
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TAJ WEEKES is a singer-songwriter who performs his craft in the Reggae music genre. He is the founder of the not-for-profit organization They Often Cry Outreach (TOCO) which is dedicated to improving the lives of under-privileged, at-risk and orphaned children in the Caribbean through sport, enrichment, educational and wellness programs. Just ahead of his latest tour Taj talks to Angela McKenzie about how his musical journey is helping to change the perception that great Reggae music can only...
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SEASON 3 MIXTAPE Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie Angela McKenzie looks back fondly on some of her interviews from Initiative Radio's third season. Tune in to hear excerpts from her conversation with Mr. Rinchen Dharlo, President of the Tibet fund whose mission under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama is to work for the preservation of the distinct culture and national identity of the Tibetan people. Then atheist and activist Sunsara Taylor, Reverend Billy leader of the Church of...
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Joining Angela McKenzie in this hour are LAURA MACHO and WILLIAM HARLEY who are both funeral directors at Frank E. Campbell the Funeral Chapel for an in depth discussion about end of life care. Laura also serves as the home's public relations officer and today she speaks about the 24 hour Compassion Help Line that is available to families up to a year after their loved one has passed and also discusses some of Frank E. Campbell's corporate citizenship activities. William who is also a teacher...
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ROCK 'N ROOTS WORK! Everybody talks about jobs. Some even sing about 'em! On this edition of "RocknRoots," hosts Tom Boyd and the late Ann Sternberg present a bunch of great musical expressions of jobs and working. There's jobs music from James Cotton, Nina Simone, Lightnin' Hopkins, the Grateful Dead, Five Chinese Brothers and a lot more. This RnR show first aired in 1999, but the music and the focus on jobs are as fresh as today.
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JEFF EISENBERG Junior Jam On this edition of Initiative Radio, Angela McKenzie sits down with ASCAP award winning, singer-songwriter Jeff Eisenberg of "Junior Jam," a trio that sings high energy, interactive and educational songs for children. Eisenberg began his career as a Speech Therapist for the public school system and after working with kids and language development; he incorporated music with the lessons when he realized the routine of teaching language had become arduous for...
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Angela's guest Sunsara Taylor has been given the honor of being called a lunatic by Bill O'Reilly on the right wing political program "The O'Reilly Factor" during a heated debate about Sunsara and her colleagues' opposition to the Iraq war and the subsequent torture inflicted upon detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Sunsara Taylor is not only an anti-war activist but she is also a writer, speaker and uncompromising atheist. Just in time to challenge the religious dogma and traditions...
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ROBERTO "PLENA" IRIZARRY NUYORICAN POET Leaving Ponce, Puerto Rico at the age of four, Roberto "Plena" Irizarry moved to the Bronx to encounter a new life. He is a follower and proud member of the Nuyorican movement, which emerged on the street by Puerto Ricans who needed a new form of self-government and new communication techniques that the police couldn't decipher, to share experiences of the pain, horror, and struggle of destitution surrounding them. It has since evolved...
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GARY FARMER Cayuga Nation Native American Actor, Filmmaker, Cultural Activist & Blues Musician Born into the Cayuga Nation, Gary Farmer is a Native American Cultural Activist, Filmmaker, Actor and Blues Musician fronting the band "Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers." Farmer has devoted much of his career to promoting systems of communication between First Nations people and giving them exposure to a broader audience. He founded the Aboriginal Voices Radio Network and the Aboriginal...
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ROCK 'N ROOTS FRIENDS Tom Boyd & Ann Sternberg OK, here's a question: what thread binds these musicians: The Ravens...Bette Midler...Willie "The Lion" Smith...Dr. John...Bobby "Blue" Bland. It's songs about "Friendship" and this edition of Rock 'n Roots finds friendly music from Robert Johnson all the way up to Joan Armatrading. Look at friendship from a lot of new and interesting perspectives on this classic edition of Rock 'n Roots.
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ARUNDHATI ROY is quite possibly the most famous Indian after the Mahatma Gandhi, to fearlessly speak out about political, social and economic injustices inflicted upon India's poor. Today's edition of Initiative Radio airs the question and answer portion of Roy's 2010 San Francisco appearance in support of Kashmir and the Indian under-class, who according to Roy are facing a sort of "gentle genocide" under questionable policies and the guns of corporate sponsored politicians and their...
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DAHLIA GOLDENBERG HUAIROU COMMISSION The Huairou Commission is an organization that is comprised of a global coalition of networks, institutions and individual professionals that links grassroots women's community development organizations and partners. The networks seeks access to resources, information sharing and political space and at the same time it links dvelopment professionals to on-the-ground practice. On this edition of Initiative Radio DAHLIA GOLDENBERG, Huairou's Member Organizer...
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JIMMY McMILLAN Founder The Rent Is Too Damn High Party and Movement During this latest installment of Initiative Radio's Salute to Black History Makers, Angela McKenzie pretty much turns the microphone over to the newly famous politician Jimmy McMillan, founder of The Rent Is Too Damn High Party. Although McMillan is thought to be a character, with his bubbly personality, black gloves and sleek, silver coif and beard, he definitely knows how to keep it real and stand up for the issues he...
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MILLENNIUM ART ACADEMY'S MILLENNIUM PEARL INITIATIVE featuring Lilien Christmas, Opeolu Sehindemi & Patrick Price On this Millennium Art Academy (MAA) edition of Initiative Radio, Angela McKenzie starts her month-long Salute to Black History Makers series by interviewing Ms. Lilien Christmas about her life growing up in segregated parts of New Jersey and about the legacy that she has left and continues to leave behind at ninety-one years old. She speaks about the injustices of her...
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Jason Bowman Director, Fountain Gallery On today's program Angela visits the progressive Fountain Gallery in Hell's Kitchen, NYC to speak with director Jason Bowman who explains why Fountain is not just a gallery it's a movement. Fountain provides an environment for artists living and working with mental illness to pursue their creative visions and to challenge the stigma that surrounds mental illness. Among the gallery's success stories is a rather amusing one about cosmetic mogul Estee...
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On today's edition of "Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie" Angela pays a visit to the New York City headquarters of the B'nai Zion Foundation in Murray Hill, to chat with Campaign Director Justin Brannan. B'nai Zion is a secular, apolitical organization that is just over a century old and its' core mission is raising funds for projects in Israel that improve the quality of life of underprivileged children regardless of their religious and ethnic background. Additionally, B'nai Zion...
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RocknRoots - Overcoming Featuring ANN STERNBERG This is a special edition of RocknRoots for one very important reason. Ann Sternberg, longtime producer and host, did this show as a solo statement about her battle with Cancer, and her determination to overcome it. Ann chose music to reflect her grit, her spirit, and her absolute belief that she would prevail. Ultimately, she lost the fight with Cancer, but along the way, she showed us all what overcoming is all about. Listen as Ann Sternberg...
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INITIATIVE RADIO SALUTES BLACK HISTORY MAKER BOB MARLEY Had Bob Marley survived his battle with Acrolentiginous Melanoma, a form of skin cancer most common in the black race, February 6th 2010 would mark his sixty-fifth year and like many living musical legends and fellow Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame inductees, he could very well have staged a successful comeback tour with his musically gifted children in tow. Initiative Radio's Salute to Black History Maker Bob Marley is a dream come true for...
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ARUNDHATI ROY is an Indian woman who not only talks the talk but also walks the walk of activism for social justice and economic equality in her beloved India. This edition of Initiative Radio airs the audio content of Roy's 2010 appearance in San Francisco, to show her support for the plight of Kashmir's people who've been stuck in a political no-man's-land since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. Roy also gives an account of how India's ascension to the rank of capitalist contender,...
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"Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie" is proud to present select vintage editions of the radio program "Rock 'n Roots" hosted by Tom Boyd and the late Ann Sternberg. Each program is thematic in nature and takes listeners on a musical ride filled with history, trivia and cheerful banter. Today's program explores the roots of racism in America through discussion and a great play list of music. Weighing in on the issue is the righteous babe herself Ani DiFranco; Frederick...
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Joe Revitte is a self-described, frustrated movie producer, who was stuck in development hell preparing to make pictures that would never be. So to quench his desire to fully materialize a motion picture project, he looked around his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood for inspiration. The inspiration came in the the form of the local, shared transportation service called the Dollar Van ride, so along with his wife and business partners, Revitte developed the reality based music video format he...
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BRIAN BRADLEY THE ASTRONOMICAL KID On this installment of Initiative Radio's Salute to Black History Makers series, Angela catches up with fourteen year old, Brooklyn native Brian Bradley, known in the Hip Hop music scene as the Astronomical Kid to discusses the parallels of being a regular kid and a musical sensation. Just like any other kid, Astro battles everyday life, keeping his grades up while leading the life of a Hip Hop prodigy, performing, producing his own sitcoms and cartoons and...
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ROBERT CORDERO Executive Director, CitiWide Harm Reduction CitiWide Harm Reduction is an organization that is committed to improving the health and social and economic status of active drug users who are homeless or at risk of being homeless in New York City. In a safe and supportive, non-judgmental, participant-led community, CitiWide offers a variety of outreach services and care to homeless and low-income drug users living with and at risk for HIV-AIDS. Encore number IR-10-36 Angela McKenzie...
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Joni Mitchell Singer, Songwriter, Painter, Guitar Legend and Outstanding Canadian Woman It was only a matter of time that Initiative Radio producer and host Angela McKenzie would find a reason to dedicate an entire edition of the program to her all time favorite artist Joni Mitchell. Joni Mitchell's music has personally inspired Angela and many of the musical selections she has chosen to accompany many editions of Initiative Radio. To close out Initiative Radio's month-long spotlight on...
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Kayce Freed Jennings Co-Founder, Executive Vice President & Senior Producer The Documentary Group Kayce Freed Jennings is co-founder of The Documentary Group. Previously she was Vice President of PJ Productions, where she was also senior producer on documentaries including State of the Union and Out of Control: AIDS in Black America, a recipient of the George S. Peabody Award. Kayce began her early career in the early 1980s at ABC News in London. It was there that she first worked with Tom...
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ANTHONY PAPA Drug Policy Alliance This week Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie takes another look at how the complexities associated with Prohibition have resurfaced in twenty-first century America, in the form of Nelson Rockefeller's draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Angela visits the offices of the Drug Policy Alliance to speak with Anthony Papa - an artist, writer, noted advocate against the War on Drugs and Co-founder of the Mothers of the New York Disappeared. His opinion pieces about...
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Over a quarter of a century ago, Ralph McDaniels, known as Uncle Ralph by fans and music industry peers, approached WNYC TV - New York City's public broadcasting station, with the idea of airing music videos in a one hour package called "Video Music Box" (VMB) to showcase musicians who told tales of inner-city life through their beats and rhymes. Needless to say the idea was met with initial resistance but VMB's Nielsen ratings surpassed those of the station's traditional content and...
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ROCK 'N ROOTS "TRUTH" Tom Boyd & Ann Sternberg Musicians from all over the map and all over the spectrum gather on this edition of RocknRoots to tell - the truth! There's electric blues from Joe Louis Walker, big band swing from Count Basie and Buddy Rich, the authentic and organic sound of Elizabeth Cotton, and a "smush" of Ray Charles, Otis Redding and the Nighthawks. Truth-telling from New Orleans master Eddie Bo, country legend George Jones - in true RocknRoots...
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DAHLIA GOLDENBERG HUAIROU COMMISSION The Huairou Commission is an organization that is comprised of a global coalition of networks, institutions and individual professionals that links grassroots women's community development organizations and partners. The networks seeks access to resources, information sharing and political space and at the same time it links dvelopment professionals to on-the-ground practice. On this edition of Initiative Radio DAHLIA GOLDENBERG, Huairou's Member Organizer...
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PATRICIA DANDONOLI CEO & President Water Aid America - Part 2 of 2 (Women specific edition) In part two of this compelling series on Water Aid America, Patricia Dandonoli takes us inside the lives of women and girls worldwide and their plight to find clean water and sanitation, and gives us an inside look on how other women, working with Water Aid are directly and indirectly coming to their rescue. During this month of Women’s history, an emphasis is put on poor women and their struggles...
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Angela McKenzie speaks with Molly Melching, the Founder and Executive Director of the Senegal based, non-governmental organization Tostan and her colleagues Malick Diagne and Oureye Sall. In 1974, when American-born Molly Melching traveled to Senegal as an exchange student from the University of Illinois, she did not realize that she would fall in love with Senegal's people, language and culture and in turn make a lifetime commitment to educating and empowering under-served Senegalese...
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Music of New York Part 1 Rock 'n Roots Edition As Initiative Radio closes out its' third season, guest hosts Tom Boyd and Ann Sternberg present a two part salute to Initiative Radio's and Rock 'n Roots' hometown of New York City. In classic Rock 'n Roots style, listeners will be treated to a few decades worth of music made famous by artists who came to the Big Apple to secure their place in musical history.
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Under normal circumstances, ROCK 'N ROOTS doesn't promote color preference but on today's show it's black and blue all the way. Initiative Radio guest hosts Tom Boyd and Ann Sternberg spolight the songs of artists who pay homage to the colors black and blue through their lyrics and musical stylings.
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MAXINE NODEL Founding Principal Millennium Art Academy Award winning educator Maxine Nodel founded the Millennium Art Academy high school located in the Bronx, New York City in 2003, with the vision of preparing students for the world of college, work and school, using a foundation of humanity, and themes of visual art and intergeneration. Students participate in a variety of individual and group projects that stress critical thinking, problem solving, developmental writing and artistic...
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LELAND MELVIN, Astronaut Associate Administrator Office of Education National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Never in his wildest dreams did LELAND MELVIN imagine that he would have a career as an Astronaut - much less walk in space but as they say, "life is what happens when you're making plans" and Melvin's plan was to play professional football. Unexpectedly, an injury forced him to trade in his football helmet for another kind of helmet - one that was attached to the...
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JACKIE EMSLIE Second Amendment Advocate NRA Certified Firearms Expert and Educator Out of the 77,000 National Rifle Association (NRA) certified firearms trainers only 1,700 are women; so Angela McKenzie, a Peter Jennings Journalist Fellow for the United States Constitution traveled to Poughkeepsie, NY to track down one of them, in the person of JACKIE EMSLIE. Emslie became an active part of the Second Amendment community over two decades ago when her husband Scott - himself a master marksman,...
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RocknRoots Walking Tom Boyd & Ann Sternberg Now that spring has sprung, it's time to put your feet to the street. This edition of RocknRoots helps you do just that, with great tunes about all kinds of walking, from all kinds of musicians. Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, Howard Fishman, and the folkies who kick-started the folk revival The Rooftop Singers - all of them and more take a walk on this edition of RocknRoots with Ann Sternberg and Tom Boyd.
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Rock 'n Roots Classic Covers This is a special edition of RocknRoots, featuring great cover versions of great original tunes. Who gets covered? Hank Williams, Paul Simon, The Beatles; and who does the covering? Dinah Washington, Joe Louis Walker and the Bosstalkers, The Accidentals, Jimmy Thackery and The Drivers. Memorable songs in remarkable new versions, on this edition of RocknRoots with Ann Sternberg and Tom Boyd. Angela McKenzie is the Producer & Presenter of Initiative Radio Join our...
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From Slam to Hip-Hop, from performance poetry to spoken word, Bob Holman has been a central figure in the reemergence of poetry in American culture. The series he produced for PBS, the United States of Poetry, features over sixty poets including Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, Czeslaw Milosz, Lou Reed and former President Jimmy Carter, as well as rappers, cowboy poets, American Sign Language poets, and Slammers. In the 1990's he co-founded the record label Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records, to bring...
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Jen Marden is a New York City socialite who is using her substantial Rolodex to bring heavy foot traffic to charitable events, hosted by her company Jen Marden Charity Event Consulting. On today's edition of Initiative Radio, Angela speaks with Jen about her brief and horrific stint as a reality television starlet and about how growing up in a very privileged and sometimes pretentious environment inspired her to devote her professional life to raising awareness and funds for non-profit...
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Chef Michael M. is the Founder and Executive Chef of Comfort Zone Cooking. He was born up north in the Motor City - Detroit, Michigan but his hunger for creating great tasting meals was birthed down south. In addition to his natural talent for cooking, he fine tuned his abilities during the countless summers he spent in Mississippi with his great aunt Savannah in her kitchen. In adulthood, Michael has taken his family's traditional recipes and added his own color to them, creating new blends of...
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Today's show features an all star line-up of future stars. Cathleen Angelo and Tammy Warner are the co-founders of the youth-led, not-for-profit initiative Fighting For Futures (FFF) an organization that uses creative means to open the minds of under privileged youth. The seeds of the organization were planted when Angelo took a break from her life as a New York City event promoter to go globe trotting. She made her way to Cambodia and was deeply moved by the plight of young children living in...
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YOLANDA BORRAS Founder Musical Kids International Musical Kids International is a program devoted to arts-based bilingual education for preschool aged children and was founded in 1999 by Yolanda Borras, a passionate devotee to musical education. Her program stresses learning through vocabulary, movement, art projects and books and songs directly extracted from the folklore traditions of different countries including Israel, Korea, China, Spain and France. Borras believes that incorporating...
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IRINA FIRSTEIN Licensed Individual and Couples Therapist Irina Firstein is a New York City based, licensed therapist who specializes in couples and individual therapy. She immigrated from Russia with her family as a teenager before the Iron Curtain fell and credits the struggles of their immigrant experience with awakening her desire to help others. Firstein describes herself as a romantic-at-heart who likes to shatter common relationship myths because every couple is unique. Today's edition of...
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Dashaun Jiwe Morris Author In his book War of the Bloods In My Veins: A Street Soldier's March to Redemption, author and motivational speaker Dashaun Jiwe Morris examines a life wrought with sadness unknown to many Americans. Jiwe's transition from a child full of promise to the boy who commits his first drive-by at age 11 is a tragic tale of modern childhood. It is this pivotal moment when the reader knows that his relationship with the Bloods is no fleeting romance but a long-term commitment....
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Gandhi Part 3 A salute to the life and times of the Mahatma Gandhi.
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Encore Broadcast From Slam to Hip-Hop, from performance poetry to spoken word, Bob Holman has been a central figure in the reemergence of poetry in American culture. The series he produced for PBS, the United States of Poetry, features over sixty poets including Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, Czeslaw Milosz, Lou Reed and former President Jimmy Carter, as well as rappers, cowboy poets, American Sign Language poets, and Slammers. In the 1990's he co-founded the record label Mouth Almighty/Mercury...
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SARAH McKECHNIE, President Lucis Trust Sarah McKechnie is the International President of the Lucis Trust which was founded by Alice and Foster Bailey in 1922 and orginally named the Lucifer Publishing Company, to release Alice's writings which examined the principles and secrets of the Ageless Wisdom. Out of the Trust came The Arcane School, a free correspondence program that helps to develop the spiritual consciousness of an international student body, while guiding them in the growing...
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Christopher Austopchuk Senior Vice President, Design Creative Group Sony Music If ever there was an organization of distinguished graphic artists in unity, Chris Austopchuk could certainly be the secretary general because he has over three decades of experience in the graphic design field as both an artist and an educator. Twenty-eight of those years have been spent in the corporate world at Sony Music and for all of his professional life heâs been a professor at The School of Visual Arts,...
Topics: Initiative Radio highlights the work of organizations both for profit & not-for-profit,...
